<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Andrew Schaaf <<a href="mailto:andrew@andrewschaaf.com" style="color: rgb(66, 99, 171); ">andrew@andrewschaaf.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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...never ever ever store data using anything other than abstract NoSQL connections.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, could you explain what this means? "abstract nosql connection" found nothing on google for me :/</div>
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...make it as easy as possible for a dev from the startup world to dive in.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Absolutely, 100%, agree - might expand that to other devs too. I'm fairly easy about what tech is used, but I do think that it should be a technology the FOSS community is familiar with - php, python and ruby would seem the most obvious candidates. This is not the place to have a detailed "merits of language x" flamewar, just concerned that Node might not have the same developer-base as php/python/ruby/whatever and hence limit participation.</div>
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...have awesome UX.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Delighted to see someone else bring this up! I got no replies to my attempt to provoke a UX discussion back in December - this might be a good time to revive it? I'd hoped that if I rambled through a few aspects of it then other people would be provoked to agree / disagree / build on what's there:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2010-December/000330.html">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2010-December/000330.html</a></div><div> </div>
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...be developed on GitHub (until we create a superior replacement :)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Thumbs-up from me!</div><div><br></div><div>Alistair</div></div>